By Sheila LennonLast week's 1892 'Providence Columbus Day Arch' entry in the Time Lapse blog made clear that this 400th anniversary was a giant citywide event.
This week we acquired the capacity to digitize our archives back to the beginning, and there are nearly three full pages of coverage of Columbus Day, 1982.
See them here: 1892 newspaper report of Providence's 400th Columbus Day Celebration